Abstract
This paper features an analysis of President Trump's two State of the Union addresses, which are analysed by means of various data mining techniques including sentiment analysis. The intention is to explore the contents and sentiments of the messages contained, the degree to which they differ, and their potential implications for the national mood and state of the economy. In order to provide a contrast and some parallel context, analyses are also undertaken of President Obama's last State of the Union address and Hitler's 1933 Berlin Proclamation. The structure of these four political addresses is remarkably similar. The three US Presidential speeches are more positive emotionally than Hitler's relatively shorter address, which is characterized by a prevalence of negative emotions. However, it should be said that the economic circumstances in contemporary America and Germany in the 1930s are vastly different.
Highlights
President Trump continues to attract controversy in the media and in political commentary, partly because of his attitude to 'fake news', combined with his own lavish use of his Twitter account and lack of attention to the verication of some of his more extreme pronouncements
This paper features an analysis of President Trump's two State of the Union addresses, which are analysed by means of various data mining techniques including sentiment analysis
Given his predilection for criticising the media, the authors have previously analysed his prouncements on climate change, Allen and McAleer (2018a), on nuclear weapons and Kim Jong Il, Allen and McAleer (2018b), and contrasted his rst State of the Union Address (SOU) with the previous one by President Obama (see Allen, McAleer and Reid (2018)
Summary
President Trump continues to attract controversy in the media and in political commentary, partly because of his attitude to 'fake news', combined with his own lavish use of his Twitter account and lack of attention to the verication of some of his more extreme pronouncements. In 2018 the President used Twitter to announce the winners of his 'fake news' awards, most frequently naming the New York Times and CNN for a series of perceived transgressions which varied from minor errors by journalists on social media to news reports that later invited corrections. Given his predilection for criticising the media, the authors have previously analysed his prouncements on climate change, Allen and McAleer (2018a), on nuclear weapons and Kim Jong Il, Allen and McAleer (2018b), and contrasted his rst State of the Union Address (SOU) with the previous one by President Obama (see Allen, McAleer and Reid (2018). One contemporary and another more historically extreme, we analyse President Obama's last SOU and Hitler's 1933 Berlin Proclamation
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